I've been meaning to get to Ayreon's string of concept albums for a while now, and here I finally am. This album definitely shows its age, but I don't really think that's a bad thing in this case. There's a lot of cheese and sounds that very obviously place this as an early 90's record, but it all has a bit of charm to it. Not to mention the actual writing of the instrumentals is still very good. The story is fairly easy to follow, I lost some things here and there ... read more